- From: Miles Sabin <miles@milessabin.com>
- Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 09:53:59 +0100
- To: www-ws-arch@w3.org
Mark Baker wrote, > On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 06:16:17PM -0700, Edwin Khodabakchian wrote: > > Mark, > > > > In you view is email as an application compliant with the Web > > Architecture? > > No. But email can be implemented using the architecture of the Web. > The reverse is not the case though. I think Edwins point here is that email (and I'd add DNS) is at least as ubiquitous and robust as the HTTP/hypertext web, hence that REST isn't the only successful model we have for internet scale architectures. DNS illustrates the point particularly clearly given that HTTP, the only widely deployed implementation of REST, rests (no pun intended) on DNS as one of it's essential foundations (ie. HTTP/REST can't be any more ubiquitous and robust than DNS). It's one thing to observe that internet scale CORBA hasn't been terribly successful in the past. It's quite another to claim that this implies that REST is the only way to go. Cheers, Miles
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